“Cat People” quotes

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: We should never quarrel, never let me feel jealousy or anger. Whatever is in me is held in, is kept harmless, when I'm happy.
- Oliver Reed: I'll dance in the streets to make you happy.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“You can fool everybody, but landie dearie me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right. If you know what I mean.”
Elizabeth Dunne - Mrs. Plunkett

“You're Irena, you're here in America. You're so normal you're even in love with me, Oliver Reed, a good plain Americano. You're so normal you're gonna marry me, and those fairytales, you can tell them to our children. They'll love them.”

Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“Those who escaped, the wicked ones, their legend haunts the village where I was born.”

Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed

“I like the dark. It's friendly.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed

“- Dr. Louis Judd: Why would she wish to harm you?
- Alice Moore: Because I'm in love with her husband.”

Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd
Jane Randolph - Alice Moore

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: I fled from the past. From things you could never know or understand. Evil things. Evil!
- Oliver Reed: You told me something of the past about King John and the witches in the village and the Cat People descended from them. They're fairy tales, Irena. Fairy tales heard in your childhood.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“There's a warmth from her that pulls at me. I have to watch her when she's in the room. I have to touch her when she's near.”

Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“They torment me. I wake in the night and the trail of their feet whispers in my brain. I have no peace. For they are in me.”

Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed

“The story grows more and more charming, simpler too, all the time. You're both victims of fear. Mrs. Reed fears the past and you fear the present. Mrs. Reed has a very strong imagination and you have an equally strong conscience.”

Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd

“I know what love is. It's understanding. It's you and me and let the rest of the world go by. It's just the two of us living our lives together, happily and proudly. No self torture and no doubt. It's enduring and everlasting. Nothing can change it.”

Jane Randolph - Alice Moore

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: Be kind. Be patient. Let me have time. Time to get over that feeling there's something evil in me.
- Oliver Reed: You have all the time there is in the world if you want it. And all the patience and kindness that's in me.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“There is in some cases a psychic need to loose evil upon the world, and all of us carry within us a desire for death. You fear the panther, yet you're drawn to him, again and again. Couldn't you turn to him as an instrument of death?”

Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd

“I envy every woman I see on the street. I envy them. They're happy. They make their husbands' happy. They lead normal, happy lives.”

Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: You're very wise, you know a great deal, yet when you speak of the soul, you mean the mind, and it is not my mind that is troubled.
- Dr. Louis Judd: All the psychologists have tried for years to find that subtle difference between mind and soul - and you've found it.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: What should I tell my husband? Naturally, he's anxious to have some word.
- Dr. Louis Judd: What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Tom Conway - Dr. Louis Judd